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Fitch himself gives a stunning performance, most notably as the surreal singer/TV announcer. He is hilarious, truly strange and apparently in his element. As the man who makes the monkey puppet dance, Fitch is captivating and wonderful...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: Montage of Different Realities | 10/31/1991 | See Source »

INHERIT THE WIND. What better way to celebrate the Bill of Rights' 200th anniversary than to revive this drama about the clash between freedom of speech and freedom of religion in Tennessee's 1925 "monkey trial" about evolution? Staged five times a weekend through Dec. 15 in an actual courtroom of Philadelphia City Hall, it features Malachy McCourt as William Jennings Bryan, and Jason Miller, Pulitzer-prizewinning author of That Championship Season, as his adversary, Clarence Darrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 21, 1991 | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...This throws a monkey wrench into Ivy plans. We could both still finish on top, but who knows about Penn and Princeton," Anderson said...

Author: By Joanne Nelson, | Title: Stickwomen Play to 2-2 Tie | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...often possess the sense of anticipation one associates with an empty stage. (Hence they were a powerful influence on De Chirico, and on Surrealism generally.) Nowhere is this more piercing than in the large study for the landscape of La Grande Jatte, without its 50 or so people, its monkey and two dogs. The curtain has risen on this green paradise, and the cast will filter on, one at a time, throughout the subsequent studies -- the St.-Cyr cadet, the lady with the monkey but without her attendant gentleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Against The Cult of the Moment | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...unusual in that it has not only resisted settlement but has retained its animist beliefs. Other longhouses have converted to Christianity, a change that they find brings some practical benefits, but at a price. Gone are medicines that involved spells, as well as taboos on women's eating leopard, monkey, sun bear and python. One old hunter says Christianity has simplified life. "Before, if I went from one place to another, I had to worry about taboos," he says. "What dream did I have last night, what route should I take? Now I just go there." On the other hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Borneo | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

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